Newsletter 801
Sanity and the Martial Arts
Good summer to you!
It’s almost here,
and do you have a plan?
Have you selected what martial art
you want to master this summer?
Hey,
I was talking to this fellow today,
He was a pilot,
used to push B1s around.
that’s right,
he was carrying the biggest bullets known to mankind.
We talked about a lot of stuff,
and veered into politics,
and it was refreshing.
He was from Arizona,
told me about gun laws there,
concealed carry,
the incredible border war that is going on
and that the news media doesn’t cover.
I told him about sanity.
He made the remark,
the old saw about:
insanity is when you keep doing the same thing
over and over,
and expect different results.
I told him that sanity was when you could observe reality.
He blinked,
and said I was right.
Never thought of it,
but I was right.
And I am.
When you do the martial arts,
you practice for some guy coming down at your head with a knife,
and you have to observe the exact reality of it all.
Observe something other than a knife
coming at your head,
and you get cut.
Blood spurts.
You know?
And here is what it all means,
most people deal in opinion.
Opinion is talk without the facts.
Most politicians do this.
They pay no attention to the fact
that every state that has fewer gun laws,
has less crime.
They call for more gun control,
which,
if you observe the reality,
is asking for more crime.
Simple but true.
So on one side we have the relative insanity
(all sanity and insanity is relative)
of opinion.
On the other side we have the relative sanity
of observation.
The thing is,
it is actually pretty easy to be sane.
Just practice your forms,
and practice the techniques in your forms,
and toss out the bushwah,
the stuff that doesn’t work.
But,
and this is an example of insanity,
many people don’t do that.
Look at the chat rooms,
everybody has an opinion.
One or two have the facts,
and the other 98 or 99 has an opinion.
That,
incidentally,
is why I don’t bother going to chat rooms,
and have even,
thus far,
eschewed a chat room of my own.
So,
here it is again,
if you can observe what is real,
you can be sane,
and the martial arts help you observe what is real.
If you can’t observe what is real,
you can only speak in opinion,
and the more opinion you have,
the more insane you are.
Well,
think about it.
And think about getting the Outlaw Karate course.
http://monstermartialarts.com/martial-arts/outlaw-karate/
I was doing the Outlaw Karate course,
and tossing out bushwah techniques,
and trying to find EXACTLY what worked.
It really helped me to discover matrixing,
And,
what martial art are you going to learn this summer?
Have a great work out!
Al
http://monstermartialarts.com/martial-arts/outlaw-karate/
http://www.amazon.com/Matrixing-Tong-Bei-Internal-Gung/dp/1507869290/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423678613&sr=8-1&keywords=tong+bei
